Approaches to the Nature and Epistemological Foundations of Religious Education in Colombian Schools

Shaping the identity of religious education is a challenge for all countries that have inc1uded the teaching of religion in school curricula as a strategy to promote the religious affiliation of new generations. These countries have done so due to their historicallinks to different religious traditions. In fact, the revision of the role of each one of the components of the curricular matrix for the education of children and adolescents entailed a new discussion concerning the continued teaching of religion and its organization. The inter-institutional and interdisciplinary work carried out by researchers from the Universidad Santo Tomás in Bogotá and the Fundación Universitaria Católica Lumen Gentium in Cali made it possible to establish the epistemological foundations and contribute to the study of the nature of Religious Education in Colombian schools. 
The work of these researchers proves that studies and works aimed at understanding Religious Education as a discipline are not solitary, institutional actions aimed at constructing objects of knowledge. On the contrary, it is a collaborative process of networking that will allow nationwide understanding of the pedagogical project of a school component.